Comments for Flinders Archaeology Blog http://flindersarchaeology.com Indigenous, maritime and historical archaeology and cultural heritage management Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Frozen Charlotte listen to your mother! by fidg0009 http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/06/12/frozen-charlotte-listen-to-your-mother-2/#comment-1299 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:34:13 +0000 http://flindersarchaeology.com/?p=4658#comment-1299 Hi Mary

I have not read about the cake part, but this makes sense. They were cheap and were commonly sold as ‘penny toys’ which costed a penny.

Samantha

]]> Comment on Frozen Charlotte listen to your mother! by Mary-Lynn E. Longsworth http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/06/12/frozen-charlotte-listen-to-your-mother-2/#comment-1287 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:12:44 +0000 http://flindersarchaeology.com/?p=4658#comment-1287 My understanding is that the Frozen Charlottes were an inexpensive, but solid toy dolls that would be gifted to a child by putting it atop a celebratory cake be it for their birthday or otherwise. Although probably beloved by children, unlike regular dolls who could easily have limbs, heads, and even the cloth body replaced, once a Charlotte broke, it was no grave loss financially to the parents. As for the child, that’s another story.

]]> Comment on Is the development boom a bust for archaeology? by Andrew http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/05/24/is-the-development-boom-a-bust-for-archaeology/#comment-1173 Sun, 26 May 2013 12:32:15 +0000 http://flindersarchaeology.com/?p=4563#comment-1173 Check out the Time Team Special – Londinium. It follows archaeological investigation (and not the TT crowd) progressing in the bow wave of a major development. One great discussion point is the negotiation between developers and the archaeologists in negotiating more time.

]]> Comment on Is the development boom a bust for archaeology? by Susan Piddock http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/05/24/is-the-development-boom-a-bust-for-archaeology/#comment-1171 Sun, 26 May 2013 04:30:39 +0000 http://flindersarchaeology.com/?p=4563#comment-1171 Dear Miles
That sounds like an interesting topic. You might find it worth joining the Ozarch email list and checking the archives as discussions in the past about consulting work could give you some other views.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/ozarch

Good luck another older person Susan P.

]]> Comment on It’s an ace! by Mary Lynn E. Longsworth http://flindersarchaeology.com/2013/04/23/its-an-ace/#comment-1101 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:56:16 +0000 http://flindersarchaeology.com/?p=4391#comment-1101 Please feel free to contact me at the attached e-mail address. I’m an undergrad archaeologist working on 19th century children’s toys (mainly marbles, but other things as well). Outside of just the objects themselves, I look at childhood of the time both from the adult’s perspective as well as the children’s. I’ve also looked at economics of families and comparing them to the marbles, mainly with an immigrant site in St. Louis, Missouri, but with others as well. As a mother of a 5-year-old, and a greying archaeology nut, I would be more than happy to lend a hand!

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